Summary
The Battle of Sultanabad (Persian: نبرد سلطانآباد) occurred on February 13, 1812 between the Russian Empire and the Persian Empire. In the resulting battle, the Russians were routed.
| Battle of Sultanabad | |||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) | |||||||
 This painting once decorated Abbas Mirza's palace. Depicted on this huge canvas is the defeat of the Russian Trinity Infantry Regiment in the battle near Sultanabad, which took place on 13 February 1812. Persian soldiers wearing European uniforms bear Persian banners, on which a lion holds a sabre in its paw against a background of the rising sun.[1] | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russian Empire |
 Qajar Iran | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Pyotr Kotlyarevsky | Abbas Mirza | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 900[2] | 2,300[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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More than 300 killed (including the Russian commander and 12 other officers) and more than 300 wounded[2] or 500 killed or wounded[3] |
100 killed[3] or 140 killed (including 2 British sergeants)[2] | ||||||
The Persians, numerically superior,[3] were led by Abbas Mirza and fought the Russians, led by Pyotr Kotlyarevsky.[citation needed] A Persian offensive into Georgia, with its British and French-trained Nezam-e Jadid infantry,[4] initiated the battle. The Persians had also obtained European cannons from the French.[4]
The Persians won the battle by moving faster than the Russians and by attacking them near their camp with the reformed European-style infantry.[5] However, the Battle of Aslanduz and the Siege of Lankaran followed soon after, shifting the momentum of the war firmly in Russia's favor.[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Battle Between Persians and Russians". State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
- ^ a b c d Atkin, Muriel (1980). Russia and Iran, 1780–1828. University of Minnesota Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0816609246.
- ^ a b c Denis Wright, The English Amongst the Persians: Imperial Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iran, (I.B.Tauris, 2001), 52.
- ^ a b Building a new Army:Military reform in Qajar Iran, Stephanie Cronin, War and Peace in Qajar Persia, ed. Roxane Farmanfarmiaian, (Routledge, 2008), 53.
- ^ a b Serim (2021-12-17). "Anglo-Persian Relations: The British Military Mission to Persia, 1810-1815". www.qdl.qa. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
Bibliography edit
- Roxane Farmanfarmiaian (editor). (2008) War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-42119-5
- Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, Volume 36, Tehran [which?] Author, Article Title, page numbers needed
- Atkin, Muriel. (1980). Russia and Iran, 1780 - 1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5697-4
- Kazemzadeh, Firuz. (1974). Russian Penetration of the Caucasus. In Russian Imperialism: From Ivan the Great to the Revolution, ed. Taras Hunczak. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-0737-5